Predictive Modelling Contracts in the UK excluding London

Predictive Modelling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Predictive Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Predictive Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 381 451
Rank change year-on-year +62 +70 +21
Contract jobs citing Predictive Modelling 17 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.087% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.10% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 9
10th Percentile £448 £363 -
25th Percentile £455 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £663 £571 £525
90th Percentile £676 £579 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Predictive Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Predictive Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Predictive Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK excluding London

Predictive Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Predictive Modelling in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK excluding London

Predictive Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Predictive Modelling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Predictive Modelling in the UK excluding London

Predictive Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Predictive Modelling in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Predictive Modelling in the UK excluding London

Predictive Modelling
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Predictive Modelling within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +18 6 £465 -16.06% 43
North West +20 5 £465 -10.58% 27
South West +48 4 £668 +24.19% 13
Scotland +15 3 £550 - 7
South East - 3 £365 - 64
Midlands +21 1 £475 +7.95% 23
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 12
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 10
Predictive Modelling
UK

Predictive Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Big Data
1 7 (41.18%) Hadoop
2 4 (23.53%) Tableau
3 3 (17.65%) Data Mining
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.76%) Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Advertising
6 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Data Scientist
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Science Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Information Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) TensorFlow
2 3 (17.65%) PyTorch
3 2 (11.76%) Pandas
3 2 (11.76%) scikit-learn
3 2 (11.76%) XGBoost
4 1 (5.88%) Matplotlib
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) NumPy
4 1 (5.88%) Prophet
4 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Machine Learning
2 11 (64.71%) Data Science
3 10 (58.82%) Data Analysis
4 7 (41.18%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (41.18%) Decision-Making
4 7 (41.18%) Visualisation
5 5 (29.41%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (29.41%) Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
7 3 (17.65%) MLOps
7 3 (17.65%) Predictive Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 10 (58.82%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) R
4 3 (17.65%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Google